It’s been more than five years since Sufjan Stevens released his last proper solo album, the hushed and ghostly acoustic lament Carrie & Lowell. That drought will end next week with the release of a lengthy and electronically inclined new opus called The Ascension. Sufjan has already shared two songs from the project, the doleful […]
Jeff Tweedy – "Guess Again" & "Love Is The King"
Jeff Tweedy is a prolific man. Since 2018, he has released a memoir, two sister albums, and a new Wilco album — and that’s just the stuff with his name up top, let alone all the production work and extracurricular hijinks he’s up to at any given moment. He’s already got a new book, How […]
Clairo – “You’ve Got A Friend” (Carole King Cover)
Is it possible that the internet-friendly young bedroom-pop stars of today are just the current version of ’70s-style singer-songwriters? That this is just how the people who make circa-now pop are expressing intimacy and sensitivity? Maybe? I don’t know. But today, we’ve got one of the big names in the SoundCloud-pop universe covering one of […]
Lande Hekt – "Whiskey"
Lande Hekt fronts the fearsome Band To Watch Muncie Girls, who have released two albums — 2016’s From Caplan To Belsize and 2018’s Fixed Ideals — and a B-sides EP, The Point, which came out earlier this year. She also puts out music on her own. Last fall, she released her first solo EP, Gigantic […]
Porridge Radio – "7 Seconds"
Porridge Radio, the Brighton, UK indie rock Band To Watch, spent the pre-pandemic segment of 2020 rolling out their phenomenal sophomore album Every Bad. Under lockdown, Dana Margolin’s project has continued to crank out new tunes. They shared “Good For You,” a collaboration with Lala Lala, in July. And now, as Pitchfork points out, they’re […]
The Mountain Goats – "Get Famous"
Next month, the Mountain Goats are releasing a new album, Getting Into Knives, the project’s second new album of the year following the lo-fi Songs For Pierre Chuvin that came out in April. A few weeks ago, we got its lead single, “As Many Candles As Possible,” and today we’re getting another new track, “Get […]
The Avalanches – "Music Makes Me High" & "Take Care In Your Dreaming" (Feat. Denzel Curry, Tricky, & Sampa The Great)
The Avalanches took 16 years to follow-up their classic debut Since I Left You with Wildflower, but it’ll only take four years and some change for them to follow up that. Today, the Australian group are officially announcing their new album, We Will Always Love You — it will be out in December. They started […]
Eddie Vedder – "Cartography"
A little while back, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder scored a documentary about Robert F. Kennedy called Return To Mount Kennedy. His soundtrack for the movie has yet to be released, but one of the instrumentals he composed for the film has just been put out as the latest entry in Sub Pop’s singles club. The […]
Stream Devi McCallion & Katie Dey's New Album 'Magic Fire Brain'
A couple years ago, Devi McCallion and Katie Dey released a collaborative album called Some New Form Of Life. Since then, they’ve put out plenty of material on their own — McCallion has released a couple of Black Dresses albums and one Girls Rituals album, and Katie Dey has released solipsisters and mydata, which we […]
Coma Regalia Release New Album 'Marked': Stream
Coma Regalia are a screamo band from Lafayette, Indiana, and they release a lot of music. Just a few months ago, the band — which has a shifting lineup always built around singer and guitarist Shawn Decker — released Vau Auspei, a career-spanning compilation that has 158 fucking songs on it. And as of now, […]